Some things work well in Europe.  The trains are awesome!  The wifi is not.   It was a challenge trying to post with the flickering connections but we’ll catch up in the coming days.  Visiting Edinburgh brought me face to face with the Reformation.  The short walk from Edinburgh castle to St. Giles Church was the distance between Mary Queen of Scots and the protestant preacher John Knox, and a religious debate that changed history.  Who is the head of the church, the king or queen, or God alone?

It was an important question that at that time could have only one right answer.  A few hundred yards from those historic places was martyrs square where 18,000 folks we would call protestants lost their lives for refusing to acknowledge the divine right of kings.  We met a couple of Christian businessmen standing at the spot in the picture who explained to us the ongoing importance it held for them and other believers.  A sober reminder of costly faith.  

We’re stuck in Chicago with a sick airplane.  Hopefully the next post will come from Atlanta.